LPFM Petition Opponents Are 'Agenda Seeking Opportunists,' LPFM-AG Says

The associations and broadcasters opposing the Low Power FM Advocacy Group’s petition to change LPFM rules to allow them to run commercials are “uneducated or agenda seeking opportunists who do not have the success of service in mind,” LPFM-AG said in FCC reply comments in RM-11753. LPFM-AG blasted broadcasters for creating “an illusion of support” by commenting against the petition both under their company names and via their state and national broadcast associations. “Weight should not be added to their viewpoint,” LPFM-AG said. It panned the Prometheus Radio Project and REC Networks. “Their inexperience in real world radio station operations, combined with their interference into LPFM rulemaking & administrative license processes, are one of the glaring reasons why this service has failed,” LPFM-AG said. To listeners, there is no difference between LPFM and full-power FM, LPFM-AG said. “The current rules that only allow an LPFM to raise funds for itself are capricious and not at all in the public interest,” LPFM-AG said. “How does this serve the American radio listener?” Opposition to the petition from NAB and state associations (see 1509020050) shows that corporate radio interests oppose local radio, LPFM-AG said.